The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, And the Culture of Total Work - Couverture rigide

White, Curtis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0977825310 ISBN 13 : 9780977825318

Editeur : Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values. As Curtis White puts it, “In order to live, you will be asked to do what is no good, what is absurd, trivial, demeaning, and soul killing.” Although we belong to the world’s most affluent society, somehow we never have the chance to ask: How shall we live?
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<br>With his trademark humor and acerbic wit, White raises this impertinent question. He also debunks the conventional w that liberalism can answer it without drawing on spiritual values. Surveying American popular ture (including <i>Office Space</i> and <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>) to illustrate his points, White urges us to renew our commitment to “human fundamentals” as artiated by Henry David Thoreau-especially free time, home, and food-and to reclaim Thoreau’s spirit of disobedience.
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<br>Seeking imaginative answers to his central questions, White also interws John De Graaf (<i>Affluenza</i>), James Howard Kunstler (<i>The Long Emergency</i>) and Michael Ableman (<i>Fields of Plenty</i>) about their ws of the good life in our time.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0977825310
• ISBN 13: 9780977825318
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 183
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible